Hart-Miller Island: 07/01/98

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Mon, 03 Aug 1998 14:10:51 -0400 

This is the Hart-Miller Island (Baltimore County, MD) report for
Saturday, August 1, 1998.
The observers were Gene Scarpulla, Bob Ringler, George Jett, and Leo 
Weigant.

Observation: 0715-1500
             AM: Sunny, 65 degrees F., N 20K - NE 20K
             PM: Sunny, 85 degrees F., NE 10K
             NOTE: 2.32" rainfall 07/30/98-07/31/98
                  (provided good shorebird habitat)

 Double-crested Cormorant        34
 Great Blue Heron                14
 Canada Goose                    6
 American Black Duck             1
 Mallard                         96 (including 5 young)
 Osprey                          14 (including 6 juvenile)
 Northern Harrier                2 (1 immature male, 
                                    1 female or immature)
 Semipalmated Plover             55
 Killdeer                        25
 Greater Yellowlegs              2
 Lesser Yellowlegs               58 (including 1 juvenile)
*SOLITARY SANDPIPER             *1 (FALL ARRIVAL)
 Spotted Sandpiper               33
*RUDDY TURNSTONE                *1 (FALL ARRIVAL)
*SANDERLING                     *2 (FALL ARRIVAL)
 Semipalmated Sandpiper          924
 Western Sandpiper               86
 Least Sandpiper                 34 (including 3 juvenile)
 peep sp.                        46
 Pectoral Sandpiper              5
 Stilt Sandpiper                 3
 Short-billed Dowitcher          4 (including 2 juvenile)
 Laughing Gull                   36
 Ring-billed Gull                664
 Herring Gull                    168 (including 1 juvenile)
 Great Black-backed Gull         473
 Caspian Tern                    154 (1ncluding 1 juvenile)
 Common Tern                     5 (including 2 juvenile)
 Forster's Tern                  2
 tern sp. (Common/Forster's)     3 (adult)
 Least Tern                      5
 Mourning Dove                   4
 Chimney Swift                   2
 Eastern Kingbird                10
 Purple Martin                   3
 Tree Swallow                    1
 Bank Swallow                    20
 Barn Swallow                    95
 Carolina Wren                   1
 Gray Catbird                    2
 European Starling               14
 Yellow Warbler                  2
 Common Yellowthroat             4
 Song Sparrow                    45
 Swamp Sparrow                   1
 Red-winged Blackbird            139
 Brown-headed Cowbird            1
 House Finch                     5
 American Goldfinch              2

BUTTERFLIES
 Cabbage White
 Clouded Sulphur (female)
 Orange Sulphur
 Gray Hairstreak
 American Snout
 Monarch
 Broad-winged Skipper

DRAGONFLIES
 Common Green Darner
 Seaside Dragonlet
 Wandering Glider
 Black Saddlebags
 bluet sp.

 Gene Scarpulla
 Towson, Maryland
 gscarp@erols.com